Kimmel Kaput?

So ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live over remarks Jimmy made in Monday's monologue about the recent murder of a certain conservative activist.

Here is what Jimmy Kimmel said:  “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

What Kimmel was addressing was the rush by Republicans to  blame “the radical left” in the aftermath of Kirk’s killing despite having limited information about the suspected shooter and motive at the time.

Kimmel then went on to mock Donald Trump's response to a question about Kirk's death to babble about the White House ballroom nobody wants.

A conservative commentator posted online that ″@jimmykimmel is explicitly stating that MAGA killed Charlie Kirk and is victim blaming the assassination on Charlie’s movement."

Explicitly? Really?

MAGA heads have been twisting themselves into knots to blame Kirk's horrible murder on some kind of vast left wing liberal agenda instead of the one guy who comes from what appears to be a conservative family.  

FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a Donald Trump stooge and MAGA loyalist, accused Kimmel of misleading viewers about the ideology of the suspected shooter. Kimmel's remarks were about how others are misleading people about the shooter's ideology.  

JD Vance took the reigns of Charlie Kirk's podcast to declare it's a fact that most political violence is instigated by the left when in fact the evidence points to the opposite has laid out in an extensive report by the Department of Justice.

A report that was pulled from the DOJ website last week. 

Well, ain't that the coinky dink?

Meanwhile, Li'l Donnie was doing his happy dance, posting online “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.”

Well, Li'l Donnie is experiencing premature adulation over Kimmel's demise.  His show has been suspended, not cancelled as of yet. 

But who knows how this will shake out.  We've seen corporate entities knuckle under to the bullying of Donald Trump and his sycophants (looking at you, Paramount) and I think ABC/Disney might get weak kneed if Trump and his cronies continue to have a tizzy of a snit over this. 

Will Jimmy Kimmel be forced to apologize to get back on the air?

Apologize for what, exactly? Kimmel said nothing bad about Charlie Kirk or about his murder but merely expressed an opinion about those who would manipulate the situation for political gain. 

If Kimmel is asked to apologize for expressing an opinion, well, ain't we all totally fucked?